• Ben and Shauna Pilgreen of San Francisco’s Epic Church at 543 Howard Revisited --- Church Launched on Barack Obama’s Inaaguration Day — YR Alleges to Mask Fingerprints of Kapor/OSAP/CaliforniaALL/Obama for America

    An epic journey — Linda Bergquist, New Church Starting Strategist serving the Bay Area

    The first time Ben Pilgreen and his church planting team set foot in San Francisco was inauguration day, 2009. Their first site visit was south of the Market district, close to the ballpark, where old warehouses were being quickly replaced with new high-rise apartments and condos. Two hundred thousand people were moving to this side of the city.

    That’s all it took for Ben and Shawna Pilgreen and their team. Leaving their hearts in San Francisco, they went home to develop partnerships, create church planting systems and select a name. Epic church was conceived.

    The Epic team moved to San Francisco in May and June 2010, and hosted their first preview service on 10-10-10. Five preview services later, they opted to begin weekly services on February 13. The launch service, held at the W Hotel in San Francisco, was a wonderful event. There wer e196 local people and 42 people from mission teams present. The excitement was high – a church was born.

    We are so grateful for John Marshall, pastor of Second Baptist Church, Springfield, Missouri (Ben’s sending church) and so many other wonderful partner churches who made this day possible. One of Epic’s most active partnering churches is Southbay Church in Santa Clara, which is celebrating its second birthday this month. Crossroads Church, a local partner for Southbay, has sacrifically partnered too, making Epic their congregational grandchild.

    Epic has a promising future as a great missional church.

    Source:

    http://www.csbc.com/article282285.htm?title=1&links=1&body=1